[PDI] Amy Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care

Amy Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care

text
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/432791

audio podcast, with clips from Barak Obama, FDR, Adam Cohen
<http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/1/14/amy_goodmans_new_column_nothing_to_fear_but_no_health_care
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Here's an excerpt:

Obama appointed former Sen. Tom Daschle as secretary of health and
human services, and director of the new White House Office of Health
Reform. Daschle's health care book, "Critical," recalls historical
failures to achieve universal care: "Like Clinton, Truman had reason
to be confident. His fellow Democrats controlled both houses of
Congress, and polls showed that Americans were anxious about the high
cost of health care and eager for change. But both presidents
underestimated the strength of the forces arrayed against them ...
(s)pecial-interest lobbyists -- led by doctors in Truman's time, and
insurance companies in Clinton's."

Obama knows well the issue -- while his mother lay dying of cancer,
she still had to battle the insurance industry. He said in that 2007
speech, "Plans that tinker and halfway measures now belong to
yesterday ... we can't afford another disappointing charade ... we
need to look at ... how much of our health care spending is going
toward the record-breaking profits earned by the drug and health care
industry."

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